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Trump has scolded reporters, claimed ignorance and offered distractions in an effort to quash questions about Epstein and the suspicions still swirling around the disgraced financier's case years after his 2019 death in prison. The demand for answers has only grown.
President Trump has come under fire from a section of his MAGA base over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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President Donald Trump suggested focusing on former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case amid controversy over sealed investigation materials.
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Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. His column, Rules of Law, offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs and the political dimensions of the law at a moment when the two are inextricably linked.
Trump has repeatedly denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and claimed he cut off their relationship long ago. For a president skilled at manipulating the media and controlling the Republican Party, it has been the most challenging test of his ability to shift the conversation in his second term.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has been a target of recent attacks from Trump, also swooped in: “The president won’t rule out a pardon for a convicted child sex trafficker and Epstein’s co-conspirator. Says he is allowed to do it. Nothing suspicious about that...”
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President Donald Trump will get no warm welcome in his mother’s homeland. The president will land at Prestwick Airport, near Glasgow, Scotland, on Friday evening and immediately head to his golf resort at Turnberry,
After The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive on an apparent letter written to Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump went to battle.